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Feminism
Molly Youngkin
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
FeminismIntroductionAlthough there is overlap with categories in Oxford Bibliographies entries such as Gender, Sexuality, Homosexuality, and the New W...
Fiction, Detective
Anne Humpherys
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Detective FictionIntroductionMuch of 19th-century detective fiction was published in periodicals, the form of Victorian detective fiction being primar...
Fiction, Sensation
Matthew Rubery
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sensation Fiction Introduction Sensation fiction was a literary genre that achieved enormous popularity during the 1860s in Britain. The first an...
Field, Michael
Rhian Williams
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Michael FieldIntroduction“Michael Field” is the pseudonym shared by the writers, aunt and niece, and likely lovers Katharine Bradley (b. 1846) and Edi...
Fin de Siècle
Ruth Livesey
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Fin de Siècle Introduction In its simplest definition, “fin de siècle” refers to the end of a century, yet at the end of the 19th century in Br...
France
Nathalie Vanfasse
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
FranceIntroductionWhat kind of knowledge did the Victorians have about 19th-century France, and what were their representations of France during a per...
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Ella Dzelzainis
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Elizabeth Gaskell Introduction In her own lifetime, Elizabeth Gaskell (b. 1810–d. 1865) was an eminent and sometimes controversial writer. Her ...
Gender
Pamela K. Gilbert
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Gender Introduction The Victorian period is one of the literary fields in which gender scholarship advanced earliest and most fully. The most sig...
Gosse, Edmund
Kathy Rees
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Edmund GosseIntroductionEdmund William Gosse (b. 1849–d. 1928) was the preeminent man of letters during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Alth...
Haggard, H. Rider
Roger Luckhurst
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
H. Rider Haggard Introduction Henry Rider Haggard (b. 1856–d. 1925) assisted in the annexation of the Transvaal in South Africa as a young man ...
Hardy, Thomas
Matthew Bradley
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Thomas Hardy Introduction Thomas Hardy (b. 1840–d. 1928) was born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, the son of a builder. After an education at his loc...
Historical Novel, The
Isobel Hurst
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
The Historical Novel Introduction No student of the Victorian historical novel can fail to observe the divergence between the genre’s critical...
Homosexuality
Ben Winyard
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Homosexuality Introduction The 19th century crucially witnessed the genesis of homosexual identities, subcultures, and politics in forms that h...
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Alice Jenkins
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Gerard Manley Hopkins Introduction Gerard Manley Hopkins (b. 1844–d. 1889), or Gerard M. Hopkins, as he usually signed himself, was born in Strat...
Illustration
Brian Maidment
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
IllustrationIntroductionGrowing interest in book and publishing history and the mass digitization of Victorian periodicals and newspapers has given in...
Ireland
James H. Murphy, Marguérite Corporaal
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
IrelandIntroductionIrish Victorian literature is full of possibilities for research, and interest in it is growing continually. Long neglected, its ti...
James, Henry
Deborah Wynne
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Henry James Introduction Henry James (b. 1843–d. 1916), a prolific writer of fiction, travel writing, essays, book reviews, and plays, was ...
Journalism
Matthew Rubery
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Journalism Introduction The quantity of affordable print increased dramatically during the 19th century to satisfy the demands of the first mass ...
Keble, John
Kirstie Blair
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
John Keble Introduction John Keble (b. 1792–d. 1866) is remembered as one of the founding figures of the Oxford Movement (or Tractarianism). J. H...
Kingsley, Charles
Jonathan Conlin
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Charles Kingsley Introduction Novelist, Christian Socialist, and Church of England priest, Charles Kingsley’s prolific literary output, sanita...
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